For 15 seasons, Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) saved folks, hunted issues (the household enterprise) and stopped the world from ending greater than as soon as. Supernatural ended its run on The CW (after beginning on The WB) in 2020. However what if it had continued? Had there been any plans for a sixteenth season? TV Insider lately requested Andrew Dabb, who served as showrunner for Seasons 12 by way of 15, simply that.
Whereas Warner Bros. and The CW each needed to proceed the present previous Season 15, Padalecki and Ackles each needed to do different issues. “Completely inside their rights, they’ve accomplished nice stuff,” Dabb stated. Due to this fact, “Season 16, by way of a plan, no, lengthy story quick, and I say that solely as a result of Jared and Jensen had sort of made it very well-known that 15 was the final, we deliberate for that.”
And so the sequence ended with each brothers lifeless — Dean on a hunt, Sam when he was older and after he’d had a household of his personal — and reunited in heaven.
Nevertheless, he didn’t rule out the present returning in a roundabout way. “Look, my feeling is, as a lot as we tried to finish it with a point of closure, I imply, we’re like, X-Recordsdata got here again, Buffy‘s coming again, what I imply? Supernatural 10, 15 years from now, some large fan that grew up on it will likely be working Warner Bros, and so they may resolve to deliver it again, and it’s very straightforward to do it,” he famous.
In reality, he is aware of precisely how that may occur: “Sam and Dean get up and Jack [Alexander Calvert] is there, and someone beat him up, and he’s like, ‘Look, guys, I want your assist.’ And you then’re off to the races.”
He did name that “only a set-up. It’s like, look, God obtained beat up, who beat up God, Sam and Dean determine it out. However the place it goes from there, I don’t know. And by the way in which, that could be a horrible opening. That’s the opposite factor: Generally concepts are supposed to be simply concepts.”
Dabb additionally identified that the episodes are about to go off Netflix with the top of that deal and so they’ll “in all probability” find yourself streaming on HBO Max. (Different CW reveals can be found on there.) “There’s a model the place HBO Max goes to Jared and Jensen, ‘Come again, do six episodes,’” he stated however shortly added, “I don’t suppose the panorama proper now helps that largely as a result of each streamer’s making cutbacks. And style procedural stuff just isn’t what patrons appear to need sadly.”
He does hope that the present returns “in a roundabout way, form, or kind. I believe it might be unbelievable. … I might hope that in some unspecified time in the future we’ll both get Jared and Jensen again or get some extra tales on this world as a result of I do suppose the world is actually attention-grabbing. That being stated, I believe we reside in a time proper now the place that’s tough, however I’m going to maintain my fingers crossed.”
He additionally made positive to reward the one-season spinoff we did get (after two earlier makes an attempt didn’t come to fruition): “I even have to provide credit score, by the way in which, to Robbie Thompson and the blokes who did The Winchesters, as a result of I believed that present got here collectively rather well, and I believe it was only a sufferer of circumstance and that we don’t have extra of it.”
Dabb advised us that whereas he loves Supernatural, calling it “my favourite job ever” and certain “the favourite job I ever have in my profession,” he did say, “I actually don’t know if I or anybody else concerned on this first incarnation of the present is the perfect particular person to revive it. I believe in all probability the perfect particular person to revive it’s someone who, in the course of the finale, was on Tumblr reside running a blog their response. I believe you want somebody to come back into it with somewhat little bit of a special standpoint, somewhat little bit of a recent tackle it, a means that sort of explores it, each as a fan but in addition can sort of take it ahead in a means, in a brand new and attention-grabbing route. And in the event that they needed to deliver a number of of us outdated timers alongside for the experience, that might be unbelievable.”
That being stated, what he would need to see in a revival is “the blokes again collectively and dealing circumstances of the week. As a result of as a lot as I really like the parable and I really like writing the parable and every part else, the core of that present is Sam and Dean rescuing somebody by the top of 42 minutes. No person’s actually doing that in episode in reveals proper now, however that’s what I wish to see personally. However by way of the place they go, what they do, I believe it’s large open.”
That will deliver a revival again to the Winchester motto. “That’s what the present’s all the time been about, and that’s what the present, ought to it come again, ought to proceed to be about,” in keeping with Dabb.
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